As dedicated health practitioners, we wholeheartedly believe that your health is your most precious resource and most valuable asset. Without good health, your quality of life is diminished and it’s hard to feel content. Approaching wellness from an integrative, holistic manner, we strive to eliminate the causes of disease and illness while promoting wellness education.

Combining the efforts of general practitioners with nutritional experts, functional medicine associates, and others, our staff works to improve the body/mind/spirit connection to help elevate wellness levels throughout the entire body.

From chiropractic treatments and acupuncture to IPT cancer therapy, we work in partnership with the patients themselves, allowing them to take ownership in their own treatment plan while learning more about the integrative nature of the human body. Our focus is to treat the underlying cause of disease and illness, alleviating symptoms and pain through holistic healing.

Here at the Gentle Wellness Center, we are driven by a mission to empower consumers and practitioners both through education, training, and research. We are here to assist each patient on their journey to optimal wellness.

The following services are available at our office:
1. Acupuncture (including body acupuncture, auricular acupuncture, scalp acupuncture, electro-acupuncture, laser acupuncture, cupping, moxibustion, acupressure, scraping therapy (Gua Sha) etc.)
2. Chinese herbal medicine: we prescribe herbs, or patent herbal medicine and compound herbal formula.
3. Counseling regarding lifestyle modifications and therapeutic use of foods and supplements.

Jill Ellen Smith, L.AC, M.AC, Dipl.Ac., NCCAOM, RN, MSN

I have practiced in the Healing Arts for 40 years.

My career began as a Registered Nurse at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland where I specialized in Med/Surgical nursing and later Psychiatric nursing when I received my Masters Degree in Nursing at the University of Maryland. My graduate degree in Nursing was a natural first step into the holistic approach and philosophy of my graduate degree in Chinese Medicine. I blend my vast nursing background into my acupuncture treatments as I treat a wide variety of physical and emotional/spiritual issues.

I have effectively treated anxiety, sleep disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, depression, skin disorders, fibromyalgia, menopausal and menstrual disorders, TMJ, infertility and back/neck/shoulder pain, just to name few.

I hold a Masters degree in Acupuncture and I am Licensed and Nationally Certified with NCCAOM (National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine – Public Protection Through Quality Credentials).

The learning process is ongoing as I delve deeper into this 5,000 year old medical art form in my own treatment room. My patients benefit from my years of academic studies, my acupuncture treatment experience, and my life experience as a wife and a mother of two teenagers.
We accept the following insurance:

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Lorene is a wellness practitioner dedicated to wholistic methodology addressing systemic imbalance. She works a lot with Allergies and Auto Immune problems which have increased over the past 13 years. She has extensive experience treating a wide spectrum of conditions including RA, Migraines, Fibromyalgia, MS, Acute and Chronic Pain, Arthritis, Depression, Anxiety, Sciatica, Allergies, and Repetitive Injury.

She is a Minnesota licensed acupuncturist and TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) practitioner. Lorene holds a Masters degree in Oriental Medicine, and has been in private practice since 2006, helping people restore, rejuvenate, and transform their lives.

She strongly believes in the partnership between patient and practitioner, and often implements dietary changes, or herbal recommendations specific to the patient’s individual needs.

About
Kevork earned his Master’s degree in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine from the New England School of Acupuncture (NESA). At NESA, Kevork studied both Chinese and Japanese styles of Acupuncture, and also completed the Chinese herbal program. During his time at NESA, completed internships at the NESA school clinic in Watertown MA, and also completed externships at Dimock Community Health Center serving Boston’s urban neighborhoods with acupuncture care. He is Board Certified and licensed to practice acupuncture and herbal medicine in Rhode Island state by the Rhode Island health department. Kevork is also ( Foreign Medical Graduate ). He worked as an MD overseas for many years.
Recently he practices only Oriental medicine.